Re: how about ifconfig?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:19:03AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> It's not available on anything but the hurd-i386 platform.
> There is a lot of work involved when we want to make it available to the
> linux people, because we have to work out the right dependencies and
> conflicts to make it possible to install it instead of the netbase & friends
> utilities, and to make switching between those two work.

Interesting.  I'm surprised it doesn't show up in the package list for 
unstable.

Oh well, I'm sure you've fought more Hurd battles with Debian then I'd 
care to think about. =)

> > I'm bundling up mailutils right now, do you want me 
> > to do inetutils as well?
> 
> We can do it together. If you want, you can be the uploader etc, but I am
> sure there will be a lot of things to work out where you can use my help (I
> am mostly thinking of weird Debian packaging stuff). In fact, I don't think
> I have the time to maintain it properly, so if you maintain it, I would be
> cool with that. But see above for any attempts to make it work on linux.

I'd definetly appreciate help.  But let's wait until I finish my Tasks 
and Skills section. =)  I think that's all I have left.

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